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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lester decide to do with the Behranis after he sees that Esmail could have escaped through the window?
(a) Lock them in the bedroom.
(b) Lock them in the bathroom.
(c) Tie them up.
(d) Send them out of the house.

2. Why does Behrani demand to be released from the bathroom?
(a) The family is hot.
(b) Nadereh is claustrophobic.
(c) The Behranis need food.
(d) The family is cold.

3. Who gets injured by the gun?
(a) A passerby.
(b) Behrani.
(c) Lester.
(d) Esmail.

4. What does Lester discover through a telephone call to the police station?
(a) That Alvarez wants to see him again.
(b) That the service station attendant reported Kathy's crime.
(c) That the county has the check ready.
(d) That his wife has filed for divorce.

5. When Kathy goes into the bathroom, what does she decide to do?
(a) Break up with Lester.
(b) Tell the county that she will accept the money and buy a new house.
(c) Start a program of diet and exercise.
(d) Commit suicide by overdosing on Nadereh's pills.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much bail will Lester have to pay to get out of jail?

2. What does Lester do to show the Behrani family that he believes they did not harm Kathy?

3. How does Alvarez punish Lester's threatening the Behranis?

4. When does Lester believe he has crossed a border with Behrani?

5. What does Behrani instruct Soraya to do with the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Although Lester believes Behrani's story, he becomes angry again when Behrani describes Kathy as "drunk." Behrani is angry at Lester when he sees him studying his photo with the shah. How are these two moments similar?

2. How do Behrani's feelings change when he finds Kathy in the car in his driveway?

3. After Esmail has been shot, the shooting officer looks at Lester. He needs a critical piece of information and Lester doesn't have it, either. What is that piece of information?

4. Why doesn't Behrani attempt to negotiate with Lester when he breaks in and holds them at gunpoint?

5. Lester becomes suspicious of Esmail. What causes this reaction?

6. When Lester asks Kathy whether she really wanted to die, what does she answer and why is this answer important?

7. When Lester describes his feelings during the drive to the county office, he says it is probably the way felons want to feel all the time. How does he say he feels?

8. What is Connie Walsh's planned defense for Kathy?

9. Kathy says that she only has one hope now while she's waiting for Lester to return. What does she hope?

10. Nadereh berates Behrani while he repairs her mother's table, but he lets her insults "pass over like training jets with no ammunition." Why doesn't he respond to her tirade, and what does she finally say that causes him to enter the argument?

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